Last night Morton’s got an influx of élan, and not just by way of 2&8—the new basement club that’s now open. A glittery, flapper-tinged Pippa Middleton—wearing a black dress, black booties, and too-obvious (by our lights) nude hose—was on hand for the opening, as were Prince Harry’s onetime flame Cressida Bonas, Ben Goldsmith, and Amber Le Bon. Morton’s and 2&8 are located in Berkeley Square, but Pippa got ready for her night out at Belgravia’s Goring Hotel—best known to readers of this column as the place Kate spent her last night as a bachelorette.

Speaking of Kate, Gawker notes that thanks to new photos of the former Miss Middleton’s derriere—shown in the Danish tabloid we’ve mentioned before—we’ve essentially seen the future Queen of England fully naked.

And, when she’s clothed, we already knew that Kate’s attire translates immediately into the cha-ching of retail cash registers—but few designers have benefited as heavily as England’s Jenny Packham. The queen of well-cut, flattering, and unapologetically safe dresses, Packham now says her label has seen a 40 percent rise in sales since becoming a Kate favorite, per a new interview with the Evening Standard. Still, Packham has not been without her detractors: when Kate wore a yellow shirtdress by the designer during her North American tour, the wind blew up her skirt à la Marilyn Monroe, which resulted in Packham receiving a stern handwritten note from a woman in Wisconsin. “She said didn’t I know about putting weights around the bottom of a hem, so it can’t blow up,” Packham told the paper, laughing. Packham also threw salt on your hopes of getting your own version of that dress, or perhaps the dreamy turquoise-lace evening gown Kate wore earlier this year: “We’re not Reiss,” she said. What her atelier creates for Kate is not off the rack—it’s bespoke, so. [Sips tea with raised pinky.]

The Coronation Theatre, Westminster Abbey: A Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIis the mouthful of a title of the brand-new official portrait of Her Majesty, unveiled Friday. Created by the Australian-born, London-based artist Ralph Heimans, the 9-by-11-foot portrait depicts the Queen in a commanding pose inside the famous church and was created to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee year. Heimans has said of the work, “Through the narrative of the portrait I wanted to produce a work of particular significance for the Diamond Jubilee. By representing the Queen as she reflects on this incredible milestone in her life, I wanted to explore the dynamic between her public role and the personal, emotional dimension.”

Bridget ArsenaultBridget Arsenault is the London correspondent at vanityfair.com and worked in Vanity Fair’s London office from 2009 to 2016, before which she completed her Master’s at Oxford University.